Not recommended, but funny nonetheless.

The 3rd Annual Woodford Reserve Manhattan Experience concluded in, where else, Manhattan this week with Joann Spiegel, a bartender from – hey – Manhattan crowned the winner. Here is her recipe: 2 oz Woodford Reserve 1/2 oz vermouth 1/4 oz…

After a few recent excursions to places where bourbon was sort of an afterthought, this past weekend I targeted two destinations where I knew it would be respected. I was not disappointed. At Against the Grain, the brewery and smokehouse that opened about three months…

I’m more of a beer guy. After shows here, people are like, ‘Here, drink this,’ and they give you this 3,000-proof alcohol that humans are not meant to drink. Comic Owen Benjamin, appearing Thursday through Sunday at Louisville Improv, on…

Let me say up front that I love Louisville’s L & N Wine Bar and Bistro, and that probably when you visit an establishment with “wine” right in the name of it, that is what you should drink there – and usually that…

Caught “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol” (that’s a lot of punctuation for one title, eh?) over the holiday break and was gratified by the exchange between Paula Patton’s Agent Carter and Anil Kapoor’s Brij Nath at Nath’s opulent Mumbai digs….

We’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet, for Auld Lang Syne.

This has been a great year for bourbon. But don’t take my word for it. No less an authority than The New York Times agrees. A story headlined “Bourbon’s All-American Roar” published over the weekend outlined the “singularly American success…

A toast to my big brother George – the richest man in town! Harry Bailey, “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946)

Bourbon shows up on menus across the dining spectrum. The other night I enjoyed a fantastic dinner at Seviche, chef Anthony Lamas’ Latin restaurant at 1538 Bardstown Road in Louisville. The drinks menu tends toward sangria, Mojitos and the Caipirinha…